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In 1966, when Leonard Nimoy was cast on a new science-fiction TV series called “Star Trek,” he was already 15 years deep into an acting career that had often appeared to be boldly going nowhere in particular. For more than a decade he’d been relegated to mainly bit parts in B-movies such as “Them!” and “Zombies of the Stratosphere” and TV series like “Gunsmoke” and “Wagon Train,” at one point getting a job delivering newspapers to try to make ends meet. Taking the role on “Star Trek” of Spock, a coldly logical half-human, half-Vulcan, Nimoy didn't expect much. He was just...

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